Talk:Look-down/shoot-down

Suggestions for expansion

I've just written the basis for this new article. I think that others with more knowledge than I could epxand it with some of the following information:

1) Date that Look-down/shoot-down became possible. What was the first radar set that could do this, and what plane was it mounted on.

2) Info on the importance of the missile's capabilities. I.e. a fire-and-forget missile must have some ld/sd capacity of it's own or else the terminal guidance radar would get confused if the target flew below the horizon line. I don't know which missile was first capable of this, I guess perhaps the Phoenix?

3) Something more technical about how the doppler shift is detected. I presume that the plane's radar measures the aircraft's true airspeed, altitude, and attitude, and works out its relative velocity to the ground and thereby calculates the doppler shift of the ground-radar returns and removes them from the scope, leaving only returns that didn't have the expected doppler shift of the ground. However, I KNOW it must be more complex than this, because they've got pulse doppler radars that don't get confused by the weird returns you get from water (ie the Sea!), so my description must be pretty crude. I presume that pulse-doppler radars are by definition ld/sd capable, so someone might want to say something about this.

--Corinthian 15:12, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Lead sentence, "below the horizon" could be confusing

In the lead sentence of the article words "below the horizon" (ie. with the surface of the earth on the background of the target) could be confused with Over-the-horizon radar by someone who is not familiar with the subject. MKFI (talk) 10:04, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

I've added a paragraph with links to other pages that clarify the term "below the horizon".Nanoatzin (talk) 22:35, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

What does this article mean?

It is too technical. Azbookmobile (talk) 06:22, 17 July 2023 (UTC)